When I was 10 years old in the 1990's in the Central Valley, California, I had already become the procrastinator I am today. I was up late working on a major term paper for our 4th grade class. It was never normal for me to stay up past midnight on a school night (or ever, really), but the research report was due the…

I already submitted a scary story from childhood at the beginning of the month. This creepy incident happened last night.

Two short stories - both told to me by the folks it happened to in NYC, and for some reason I found super creepy.

1 - My friend “Mickey” had some time to kill one afternoon so he went into a well known midtown Irish pub for a pint of Guinness (or 2 or 3). As he is leaving the bar, he notices a disheveled older guy…

In 2021 when the country started to open up, I got a job offer and a nice moving package and so I ended up living in an AirBnb for four months while my husband stayed back to sell our house. The rental was a townhome built in 1784, so old and sparsely remodeled that you could still see the outline of a bricked up…

[I heard this story multiple times, directly from the source--I don’t even remember everything about it, but the part I do remains one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard, and I will still think of it from time to time and get a little freaked out]

Well my story is just scary and might be spooky too. I have read Jezebel for a long time as a man who loves all of the authors who have permeated these Jezebel halls since I started reading the original Deadspin and Gizmodo iterations.

The summer I turned 15, my dad moved the family to Alaska to satisfy his craving for solitude and unspoiled nature. Our rental house was in a pretty spot on top of a hill, but was really isolated. We’re talking a 30+ minute drive from town, steep dirt road most of the way, with no neighbors around for a couple miles.…

The summer before Covid I was part of a field research project that required us to camp in a quiet California state park. Our campsite was about two hundred yards from the toilets, and the women would wait for daylight to run to the loos or go in pairs after dark.

Can’t remember if I submitted this one previously.

My then boyfriend (now husband) and I stayed at a remodeled “poorhouse” in Oregon - McMennamins Edgefield. That night, I had a vivid dream or something where a woman was standing above me, telling me she would “see me in hell” for being an adulterer. She was wearing tattered clothing from the early 1900s. I have never…

I grew up in an old house on a private road with no outlet and only one neighbor visible from the house. The house had originally been a little ranch style cottage that was used as a weekend getaway in the woods near the creek. My parents eventually built a second floor where my bedroom and my parents bedroom were…

I had the great delight, many years ago, to be able to stay at a villa in Menorca. It was a beautiful old adobe building built in the 1600's. There was a brick oven and a small outdoor pool looking out over an orange grove. My boyfriend’s Polish parents, long since passed, had bought it back in the 50's and the family…

This happened to me recently and honestly it was the most terrifying thing that has actually happened directly to me. I am pretty sure the ghost of a Native American woman tried to kill me.

As an anxious child, I’d wake up several times overnight to use the bathroom. This happened so often and for so long that my parents forbid me from turning on the lights because it would wake them up. 

I live in Wales, and the Welsh word for grandfather is Tadcu. My daughter has sadly never known either of her grandfathers as they passed away before she was born. My father had polio as a child, and as a consequence lived with a very pronounced limp for the rest of his life, having to wear an orthopaedic shoe.…

In 1988 I was 12 years old, and in this year shopping malls were extremely popular across my country, being filled with adults but mostly kids and teenagers all day long. Me and my three-years-older-than-me sister used to go to the largest one in our town with a fixed simple plan: we would go to the mall together,…

911 From the Other Side 

In 2012, my relationship with my child’s father deteriorated and I moved to another state with my child. The only people I knew in the state were somewhat estranged family, so I didn’t have any friends or much access to other people outside of work.

I’ve written about the house I live in before  (https://jezebel.com/1849648358). It’s the family home, built just after WWII. It’s been haunted and had weird things happen in and around it my whole life.

A few years ago, my wife and I went to spend time trick or treating with our goddaughter and her siblings in Jersey City. Rather than fight the subway system and subsequent debauchery during the Village Halloween Parade, we decided to take a Lyft home to our south Brooklyn apartment - about 45 minutes in a car. We got…